Alternating-current electrical apparatus.



No. 765,203. PATENTED JULY 19, 1904. C. F. SCOTT.

ALTERNATING CURRENT ELECTRICAL APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION FILED 815F113, 1902. N0 MODEL.

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No. 765,203. Patented July 19, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE.

CHARLES F. SCOTT, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO IYEST- INGHOUSE ELECTRIC & MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A CORPORAIION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

ALTERNATlNG-CURRENT ELECTRICAL APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 765,203, dated July 19, 1904.

Application filed September 13 1902. Serial No. 123,346. (No model.)

TO L717 whom it y 0071067771! circuits of such a transformer bear a constant Be it known that I, CHARLES E. SCOTT, acitiratio, which in turn depends upon the ratio 50 Zen oftheUnited States, residingatPittsburg, between the turns in the primary and secin the county of Allegheny and State of Pennondary windings. If the primary winding of sylvania, have invented a new and useful lmsuch a transformer be connected in the supprovement in Alternating-Current Electrical ply-circuit and the secondary circuit be con Apparatus, of which the following is a specinected to one element of the motor, then the fication. current in the latter will be proportional to My invention relates to the construction, that in the supply-circuit; but its absolute 1o operation, and control of single-phase alteramount may be either greater or less, denatirig-current motors in which commutators pending upon the windings. A series transare employed and in which a series relation former may be employed with either element 60 or its equivalent is provided and maintained of the motor, and the other may be connected between the field-magnet and armature winddirectly in the supply-circuit, or two series 15 ings. transformers may be employed, one for each The object of my invention is to provide a element of the motor. The series transformer means whereby the desired relation between or transformers may be either of the ordi- 6 5 the armature and field-magnet windings in nary two-coil type or of the single-coil type. single-phase motors may be maintained and Means for carrying out the invention are at the same time a different amount of curshown in the accompanying drawings, in

rent may be supplied to the armature-windwhiching from that which is supplied to the field- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a railway- 7o magnet winding. vehicle provided with a propelling-motor and It has been proposed prior to my invention a controller, the windings of the motor and to use single-phase alternating-current energy the controlling apparatus being shown diafor operating motors in which the field-maggrammatically. Fig. 2 is a diagram of a modinet and armature windings are connected in fication of motor and controller circuits; and series and to vary the speed of operation of Fig. 3 is a diagram similar to Fig. 2, but such motors by varying the electromotive showing a further modification.

3 force supplied thereto. In such cases, how- Referring now to Fig. 1, the car 1 is shown ever, it has not been possible to supply the as provided with a trolley 2, which takes curfield-magnet windings and the armature-windrent from an overhead conductor 3, supplied ings with different amounts of current, wherewith energy from a single-phase alternatingas the design and operation of motors of this current generator 3, and as connected to one 35 character make it desirable in certain cases terminal of the primary winding i of a transand under certain circumstances to utilize former 5, mounted on the car, the other terdifferent currents in the two members of the minal of the primary winding of the trans- 8 5 motor and at the same time to maintain a former being connected to the return-conconstant and definite ratio between the curductor, here indicated as the rails 6. It will 4 rents in the two members, so that any varibe understood that what is known as a thirdation in the current in one may be acComrail? construction may be employed instead panied by a proportionate variation in the of the overhead trolley indicated, that the 0 other, thus rendering the operation of the supply-conductor may be either continuous or motor similar to that of an ordinary series sectional, that it may be located in a slotted 45 motor. I have devised means for accomplishconduit or otherwise disposed, and that a coming this result, in which I employ one or more plete metallic circuit instead of a rail and series transformers. It is well known that ground return may also be utilized. The arthe currents in the primary and the secondary rangement here shown is merely indicative of any suitable means for supplying energy to a single-phase motor or to a plurality of such motors and to controlling apparatus constructed and arranged in accordance with my invention whether the motors be used for railway or other purposes. The motor-armature 7 is shown as connected in series with the secondary 8 of a transformer 9, and the fieldmagnet 10 is shown as connected in series with the secondary 11 of a transformer 12. The primary 13 of the transformer 9 has one terminal connected to one terminal of the secondary winding 14 of the main transformer 5, and its other terminal is connected to one terminal of the primary 15 of the transformer 12, the other terminal of the primary 15 being connected to a switch-arm 16, which is so constructed and arranged as to vary the active length of the secondary winding 14 of the transformer 5, and thus vary the voltage impressed upon the windings 13 and 15. The local supply-circuits, which respectively include the field-magnet winding 10 and the armature 7, provide a series relation for the armature and field-magnet by reason of the fact that the primary windings 13 and 15 of the transformers 9 and 12 are connected together in series. Any desired ratio between the current in the armature and that in the field-winding may be secured by placing suitable numbers of turns upon the two series transformers in accordance with well-known laws.

In Fig. 2 the main conductors 3 and 6 are or may be the same as shown in Fig. 1, and the windings 4 and 14 of the transformer 5 vand the switching devices 16 are shown as and the voltage materially higher than would be possible if the transformer were omitted and the field-magnet were wound to take the same current as that which passes through the armature-winding, it being a fixed condition that the armature current and voltage shall not exceed a certain predetermined value.

The voltage across the combination of parts when the transformer is used may, if necessary, be two or three times as high as that which would be possible if the transformer were not used. It may be possible, therefore, to supply the combination directly from the controller and in certain cases directly The arrangement of armature 7 field-magnet 10, and transformer 17 is the same in this figure as in Fig. 2. It will be seen that the voltage may be varied with this arrangement the same as with the arrangement shown in the preceding figures, but that when the switching device 16 is in the position indicated in the drawings the full voltage of the supply circuit is impressed upon the motor and the autotransformer.

It will be understood that inasmuch as the apparatus and circuits are shown diagrammatically they may be made to conform to standard practice. For example, the simple switch-arm and contact-points indicated for varying the voltage impressed upon the motor are obviously indicative of suitable controlling apparatus such as would be adapted to successful commercial operation andthe limited to railway systems and that the variation of the voltage which is applied to the motor or motors may be efiected by any known means other than that here specifically shown, if desired.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination with a single-phase al-' ternating-current motor, of means for maintaming a constant ratio between the currents in the armature and 1n the field-magnet wmdings of the motor and at the same :time supplying said windings with difierent amounts of current.

2. The combination with a single-phasealtcrnating-current motor, of a supply-circuit for the motor and a transformer between the armature and the supply-circuit by means of which the armature may be supplied with a different amount of current from that sup-,

plied to the field-magnet and a constant ratiowhich is connected across the motor-armature. and a winding wh1ch is connected 1n series with the field-magnet windinggsaid.windings being so proportioned and disposed as to afford a constant ratio between the armature and field currents.

4. The combination with a single-phase alternating-current motor, of a source of energy, a local supply-circuit, means for varying the electromotive force of said supplycircuit and an autotransformer in said local supply-circuit having its winding connected in series with the motor-field winding and having the secondary portion of its winding connected across the armature-terminals.

5. The combination with a single-phase alternating-current motor, of a supply-circuit, means for varying the electromotive force of said supply-circuit and an autotransformer in the supply-circuit having its winding connected in series with the motor-field winding 

